OCHNACEÆ. 379 
long subulate, at apex stigmatiferous, capitate or 4, 5-denticulate ; 
ovules in each cell 1, or more rarely 2, ascending or subhorizontal ;* 
micropyle extrorse, inferior. Fruit 2—5-lobed ; lobes radiating or 
subcupular ; lobes depresso-radians, obtuse at apex ; coriaceous, inde- 
hiscent ; fertile cells 1-3, 1-spermous; seed thick, depressed, sub- 
horizontal; cotyledons thick.—Glabrous trees; branches terete ; 
leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, entire ; nerves crowded, parallel ; 
stipules 2, setaceous ; flowers? in compound much ramified terminal 
racemes, bracteate at base; pedicels articulate, bracteolate at base 
(South Eastern Trop. America’). 
3. Tetramerista Mrq.‘—Sepals 4, decussate imbricated, of which 
2 interior are smaller lateral, persistent. Petals 4, of which 2 
are anterior, widely inserted at base, decussate imbricated, per- 
sistent. Stamens 4, alternipetalous; filaments free, flattened at 
base ; anthers cbhlong-sagittate, introrsely 2-rimose. (iermen inserted 
at summit of receptacle, 4-lobed; style subulate, simple stigma- 
tiferous at apex; ovules in each cell 1, or 2(?), ascending. “ Berry’ 
globose, coriaceous, with evanescent septa 1-locular, 4-spermous ; 
seeds oblong.” — A tree?; leaves alternate, exstipulate, simple, 
oblong-lanceolate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers in axillary 
racemes, naked at base; bracts foliaceous; bractlets 2, lateral, 
analogous to sepals, narrowly decurrent on both sides of pedicels 
(Sumatra’). 
4. Ochna Scuris.’— Flowers nearly of Ovratea; petals 5-10. 
Stamens co. Carpels 3-15; styles same in number, stigmatiferous 
at apex, free for a greater or less distance ; ovules, drupes, large fruc- 
tiferous receptacle, and seeds of Owratea. — Glabrous trees or 
sbrubs ; leaves alternate, deciduous, entire, or much oftener serru- 
late, coriaceous, lucid; nerves much crowded, parallel; stipules 

1 Sometimes slightly descending (PL, in 5 Spec. 1. 7. glabra MrQ,, loc. cit.—WALP., 
Hook. Lond. Journ., loc. cit., 649) in 2, Host- 
mannia. 
? Small, yellow. 
3 Spec. 3, 4. Wazp., Rep., v. 400; Ann. i. 
179. 
4 Fl, Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 584,—B. H., Gen., 
318, n. 5. 
5 * Mole nucis Juglandis.” 
Ann., vii, 544. 
7 Gen., n. 354.—J., Gen., 282 (part.). — 
Lamx., Dict., iv. 509 (part.); Suppl, iv. 117 
(part.); JU, t. 472.—DC., in Ann. Mus., xvii. 
410, t. 12-16; Prodr., i. 735.—Spacu, Suit. a 
Buffon, ii. 380.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5959.—PL., 
in Hook, Lond, Journ., v. 649.—B. H.. Gen., 
317, n. 1.—LeM. & Dene., Zr. Gén., 370.— 
Diporidium Wernvt, F,, Beitr, ii, 24. 
